FECAFOOT To Investigate Match-Fixing Allegations

Cameroon’s football federation(FECAFOOT) said it will investigate allegations of match-fixing by its own team at the FIFA World Cup in Brasil and the possible existence of “seven bad apples” in the squad.

The football federation said in a statement late Monday it had instructed its own ethics committee to open an investigation that will probe allegations of fraud in Cameroon’s three Group A matches (losing all three of its group-stage matches at the World Cup: 1-0 to Mexico, 4-0 to Croatia and 4-1 to host Brazil.)

“Recent allegations of fraud around Cameroon’s three 2014 FIFA World Cup preliminary games, especially Cameroon vs. Croatia, as well as the `existence of seven bad apples (in our national team)’ do not reflect the values and principles promotes by our administration in line with the FIFA Code of Conduct and the ethics of our nation,” Fecafoot said in the statement.

“We wish to inform the general public that, though not contacted by FIFA in regards to this affair, our administration has already instructed its ethics committee to further investigate these accusations.”

It was a bad nightmare for Cameroon after conceding nine goals and scoring just one in its three games.